DiamondGooner wrote:His subs were not weird at all.
Only to those who don't get it.
We had our 1st team out in the 2nd half and we were losing control of the game, under the cosh.
Lacazette and Ozil had pretty much given their all approaching 70mins so Emery wanted to bring on two fresh attackers who will be more lively to defend the flanks and drive at Napoli on the counter to help pin them back.
It almost paid off 3 times, Ramsey missed a sitter, Auba hit the side netting and there was another chance where I think Kola fked it up by doing a wayward pass.
Either way we didn't concede to a Napoli pressuring for an away goal, if we were in control of the game when he made the subs I'd see peoples point more ........... but we had no possession and were close to getting overrun.
Final sub Torreia hasn't played for about a month, Elneny was brought on to see out the game.
Not sure why some don't see this tbh?
Iwobi for Laca - Auba should have been benched, not Laca, as Auba was sh*te all game.
Mihka for Ozil - Not needed, neither is going to shore up a game and Ozil is simply better and wasn't looking tired at all.
Elneny for Torreira - Torreira was probably our best player. Didn't look tired either. Elneny is a disaster.
Ultimately, though we got away with weakening the team for the last 25 mins.
It remains to be seen whether 2-0 is enough. We'll never know if we'd have created more chances with a stronger team in the last 25.